I think that's oversimplification verging on incorrect.

I think you're assuming an easy source of huge quanties of antimatter lying around somewhere, but assuming that's not an issue, sure, why not?

No thanks. In the immortal words of Roy Baty: I want more life, fucker.

The nature of an audience that can comment on Internet is such that it can't abide anyone being even slightly wrong anywhere. It's the game, not the player. If it wasn't me, it would just be someone else. And I myself have been schooled by others on this site many, many, many, many times.

Hence the use of the modifier, "something like." You're in io9 now kid, we practically invented pedantry.

Thanks!

Point well taken.

Points well taken.

16 years in the future is not really a lot of time. If people think all this stuff is going to happen in 16 years, they should expect disappointment. I remember getting a projected timeline of all our space accomplishments to be expected by 2010. This was printed around 1977. Almost none of them, aside from the Space…

Regardless, Pugleh's snark has taken us waaaaay off my original point.

Sorry, I've lost interest in this really old conversation. Apologies but you'll have to take this up with someone else.

I'll check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

And as long as you keep bugging me, Combat, I will keep dismissing you. The sun will evolve off the main sequence before you'll get another answer out of me.

Well, it's a year later and I'm still not eating my words.

The problem is dark matter behaves just like ordinary matter in terms of gravity—for example the mass of dark matter affects the rotation of galaxies and the movement of galactic clusters just as ordinary, visible mass would.

So why not save a step and say universes without creators and without end? Turtles without end can work just as well for a godless eternal multiverse as it can work for gods of gods.

That too.

"I see 'nerd heaven' as less of a dismissal and more of a pretty apt description."

None of that I believe. I'm somewhere in the middle, rejecting both extremes as oversimplification.

Culturally, I guess they will be our children, our mind children.